Undoing Substantial Connection: The Late Medieval Attack on Analogical Thought
- Author / Editor
- Delany, Sheila.
Undoing Substantial Connection: The Late Medieval Attack on Analogical Thought
- Published
- Mosaic 5.4 (1972): 31-52.
- Description
- Surveys the roots of analogical thinking and late-medieval critiques of its methods and assumptions, exploring the background to understanding "Chaucer's curious neglect of the allegorical mode." As with nominalists, Chaucer is consistently concerned with the "ambivalence of human will."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism
- Reeve and His Tale